The Mosix HOWTO

Kris Buytaert

buytaert@be.stone-it.com

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

openMosix HOWTO
Introduction
Disclaimer
Distribution policy
New versions of this document
Feedback

2. So what is mosix Anyway ?

A very, very brief introduction to clustering

A very, very brief introduction to clustering

The story so far

Historical Development
Current state
openMosix

Mosix in action: An example

Process migration
The Mosix File System (MFS)
Direct File System Access (DFSA)

Work in Progress

Network RAM
Migratable sockets
High availability

3. Features of Mosix

Pros of Mosix
Cons of Mosix
Extra Features in openMosix

4. Requirements and Planning

Hardware requirements
Hardware Setup Guidelines
Software requirements
Planning your cluster

5. Distribution specific installations

Installing Mosix

Getting openMosix

Getting Mosix

openMosix General Instructions

Kernel Compilation
hpc.map
MFS

Red Hat and openMosix

Suse 7.1 and Mosix

Versions Required
Installation
Setup

Debian and Mosix

Other distributions

6. Cluster Installation

Cluster Installations
Installation scripts [LUI, ALINKA]
The easy way: Automatic installation
The hard way: When scripts don't work
Kick Start Installations
DSH, Distributed Shell

What is Clump/OS
How does it work
Requirements
Getting Started
Problems ?
Expert Mode

8. Administrating openMosix

Basic Administration
Configuration
Informations about the other nodes
Additional Informations about processes
the userspace-tools

9. Tuning Mosix

Optimizing Mosix
Where to place your files

10. Special Cases

Laptops and PCMCIA Cards
Disk-less nodes
Very large clusters

11. Common Problems

My processes won't migrate
setpe reports
I don`t see all my nodes

12. Other Programs

Requirements for Mosixview
Documentation on MOSIXVIEW
Installation of the RPM-distribution
the main window
the configuration-window
the migrator-window
managing processes from remote
advanced-execution
the host-chooser
the MOSIXVIEW-client
the MOSIXCOLLECTOR
MOSIXLOAD
MOSIXMEM
MosixHistory

13. Hints and Tips

Locked Processes
Choosing your processes

A. More Info

Further Reading
Links
Mailing List

C. GNU Free Documentation License

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